Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and Decline American Dream in Bloomington, MN

For a decade,
Suburban Nation
has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the movement, and even their critics, such as Fred Barnes in
The Weekly Standard
, recognized that "
is likely to become this movement's bible." A lively lament about the failures of postwar planning, this is also that rare book that offers solutions: "an essential handbook" (
San Francisco Chronicle
).
This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the authors.